Микола Забелло (1892-1967 рр.): персональна біографія агента ОДПУ «Надія»

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to research, reconstruct and analyze the personal biography of Mykola Zabello – a representative of the Ukrainian emigrant community, an em- ployee of the illegal residency of SC of UPR in exile “Istanbul Platform” and, at the same time, an agent recruited by the OGPU under the pseudonym “Nadiia”. The research methodology. To reconstruct the personal biography of M. Zabello, the author used biographical, prosopographi- cal, and retrospective methods, as well as the methods of deduction, analysis, and synthesis. In the course of the study, the principles of historicism, criticality, and systematicity were used in combination with the method of systematization, historical-genetic, and synchronous methods. The method of periodization and the historical-comparative method were applied. A special methodological role is assigned to the method of verifi cation of the source base. Th e scientifi c novelty of the research lies in the fact that, for the fi rst time in Ukrainian historiography, in the context of the activities of the Ukrainian exile special services, in particular, the “Istanbul Platform”, an attempt has been made to reconstruct and analyze the biographical world of one of its employees, M. Zabello, who was also the co-head of the Ukrainian emigrant community in Istanbul, one of its prominent fi gures, and a recruited agent of the OGPU. Th rough the prism of the personal biography of the agent “Nadiia”, the author examines the negative factors that had an impact on the success of the Ukrainian exile special services. Conclusions. Th is article, operating with a biographical typology, represents a study and reconstruction of the personal bi- ography of an employee of “Istanbul Platform”, an agent of the OGPU M. Zabello. By reproduc- ing the personality map of the agent “Nadiia”, the author explores the life narratives that formed his biographical world: mental, social, and religious characteristics that formed his personality: family status, political views, idealism, natural inclinations, the ability to adapt to new circum- stances, the ability to integration into a new society and facing challenges.